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Night Surfing at Mentawei, Sumatra.

Image Credit: Photograph by Fred Pompermayer.

“I clicked the shutter and boom!

I caught a wave to my head, and then another one right after that,” says photographer Fred Pompermayer of this shot he took of surfer Adriano De Souza riding a wave in the early morning darkness in Mentawai, Sumatra.

“It took all of my energy just to get back to the boat after that.

”Pompermayer and De Souza were part of a team that had spent time surfing during the day and traveling at night by boat from island to island.

On the day this photo was taken, the team arrived at the location around 4 a.m. and jumped in.